Iran HRM – In a February 12 voice recording sent out from The Great Tehran Penitentiary addressing political and human rights activists who asked Soheil Arabi to end his hunger strike, the political prisoner insisted on continuing his strike. Soheil Arabi stated “Ending my hunger strike means succumbing accepting punishments that I did not deserve, not even one day of it… I have …

Iran-HRM – At least six inmates were executed today in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj.

RFL/RE A referendum proposed by President Hassan Rohani to heal Iran’s divisions has been attacked by his hard-line opponents but provided an opening for establishment critics to go a step further. More than a dozen Iranian activists and intellectuals from inside the country and abroad quickly seized on the president’s tentative calls this week for the plebiscite, to ask for …

RFL/RE – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reiterated a U.S. call for Iran to withdraw from Syria, saying its military presence there is destabilizing the region.

Al-Arabia – US Defense Secretary James Mattis told Al Arabiya that Iran is behind all the regional crises. In response to a question by Al Arabiya, Mattis said: “Syria should belong to Syrians and Iraq to the Iraqis.” Speaking from Brussels on the sidelines of a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Mattis added that Iran is involved in …

Iran Human Rights –  Karim Zargar, the former general manager of IRIB’s international section, Iran TV’s channel one broadcast manager, head of the Faculty of Radio and Television, and owner and managing director of Film Reports magazine (Gozaresh-e-Film), was hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison. According to a report by Rokna, a man who has established a “fake spiritual institution” was executed. …

Iran Human Rights – A prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison on murder charges. According to a close source, on the morning of Tuesday, February 13, a prisoner was hanged at Zanjan Central Prison. The prisoner, identified as Majid Keykavusi from Marand, was sentenced to death on murder charges. An anonymous source told Iran Human Rights, “In 2012, Majid …

Iran Human Rights – A Shia prisoner from Tehran who was on the death-row has been saved from execution by the mediation of Molana Gorgij, the Sunni Imam of Friday prayers in Azad Shahr.

CHRI – In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked arrest, some were detained and some face serious charges. But they have not given up. They are the “Girls of Revolution Street.”

CHRI – Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 — The son of Kavous Seyed-Emami, an Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist who died under interrogation in Evin Prison in early February 2018, has broken his family’s silence on the case and issued a statement on his personal blog. In it, Ramin Seyed-Emami said a film of his father’s last hours in his cell …